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Friday, June 9, 1972
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pag* Seven
Memorial Day al ISahi \ar
By Jimmy Wisch
KIEV, USSR- May .10— This
is Memorial Day. One of the
most profound memories in
man’s experience is Babi Yar,
a few minutes from the main
part of town.
I went to Babi Yar a few
moments ago.
The only thing that stands in
the park now dedicated to the
place where' more than 100,000
human beings were massacred
is a small granite marker,
bedecked with flowers, which
those Soviet people that fell
say “Here the monument to all
victims of Fascism at the time
of temporary occupation of the
city in 1941-1941 will he erect
ed.”
How many were killed by
the Nazis and their Ukrainian
collaborators? Who knows?
How does one measure the
precious life that fell in the
ravine behind this marker?
Multiply the life by more than
100.000 and you have a con
servative estimate of what hap
pened here after the Nazis tried
their experiment.
They brought the 10,000
Jews together and told them
to gather their belongings. They
were going to be relocated to
Germany following the war in
September, 1941.
They marched their last mile
outside Kiev and soon they
were asked to stop at the out
skirts of town. There was a
deep ravine shielded by a nest
of acacia, silver poplar, maple
and cottonwood trees.
As they stopped they were
taken to the edge of the ravine
and. machine-gunned falling au
tomatically into the ravine.
Some who were superfically
wounded were soon covered by
another layer of bodies. The
killing continue until all the
Jews were gone. More Jews
taken to the spot—the Russians
do not really know the exact
number.
What they do know is that
the precedent soon set the pace
and within a short time, after
Jews were exhausted, the Nazis
and their helpers were killing
many Soviet citizens of differ
ent nationalities including a
preponderance of Russians.
It continued through 1943
until the tally grew to geome
tric proportions with killing be
coming a way of life a madness
that begot more insanity.
Remember well in 1966 how
the Russians showed me their
national competition for the
Babi Yar Memorial which was
supposed to have been erected
on this scene years ago and
which is still being planned.
“Which do you think is best?”
they had asked at the bam
which held the competitive
entries.
I told them they all depicted
the insanity of man's depravity
but I could find non that show
ed the explicit Jewish memor
ial. “Ah, but many Russians had
died, also,” was the answer.
I walked behind the ravine.
The acacia was in full bloom.
I cut a piece of the fragrant
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white flower. Cottonwood pop
lars were “snowing” their white
fluffs all over Kiev and espec
ially on the Babi Yar marker—
making a white, velvety cushion.
A peaceful blanket for the
nameless dead.
President Nixon at this time
was placing a wreath on the
tomb of the Russian unknown
soldier of World War II. They
said their official prayers.
I placed my sprig of acacia
on the marker—the monument
to the victims of Babi Yar.
Then I said the Jewish kad-
dlsh: “Yisgadel, v’yishkadash,
shema rabbo.”
It Is that ancient prayer for
the Jewish dead.
But it's not for Jews alone.
It’s for all men. All Babi Yars.
But, more important, for the
great hope that there will be
no more of man’s inhumanity
toward man.
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RAIMI A. I. ROSENBERG
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ham I Rosenberg, spiritual
leader of Congregation B’nai
B’rith Jacob, will receive the
Chief Rabbi Herzog Gold Medal
Award from the Religious Zion
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